Checks and Balances

Question 1

Legislative Branch

Answer 1

Congress controls the budget (has the purse)

Question 2

Executive Branch

Answer 2

If they don’t fuck with something they can make an executive order (ahem D. Trump). But then the Judicial branch can check them.

Cabinet members are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Switches from administration to administration, but the lower-level bureaucrats stay.

Appoint and remove agency heads, reorganize the bureaucracy with congressional approval.

Question 3

Judicial Branch

Answer 3

Courts have the Constitutuion

Question 4

Iron Triangle

Answer 4

Policy making relationship between congressional committees the bureaucracy, and interest groups.

Interest groups propose ideas to Congress which then gives funding and political support to the bureaucracy (departments).